7 JANUARY 1860, Page 14

It is supposed that the London press of these days

acquire information of all remarkable events in a very brief time. Lord Macaulay was one of the greatest men of this age. He died on Wednesday the 28th December, at Kensington, an outlying part of London ; the -first intimation the public receive of the event is a brief announcement in the Times on the following Friday, and the Leading Journal acquires its news from Kensington by way of Leeds ! Is not this a very curious fact ? No explanation of the tardy and roundabout way in which the fact travelled to Printing House Square has appeared, so far as we know. Did the treat writer die in twain- kon ?—was no one near his death-bed who mixes in London society, and who would have spread the tidings ?—Chatham News.